Mikhail Dostoevsky (brother)
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Mikhail Dostoevsky was a Russian writer, journalist, and publisher, best known as the elder brother and early supporter of novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mikhail Dostoevsky (brother) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1258268 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mikhail Dostoevsky (brother) Context triple: [Fyodor Dostoevsky, sibling, Mikhail Dostoevsky (brother)]
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A.
Ilya Tolstoy
Ilya Tolstoy was a member of the prominent Russian Tolstoy family, known primarily as a descendant of the famed writer Leo Tolstoy.
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B.
Konstantin Vershinin
Konstantin Vershinin was a prominent Soviet military leader who served as a senior commander of the Soviet Air Forces during and after World War II.
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C.
Foma Gordeyev
Foma Gordeyev is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the moral and spiritual decline of a wealthy merchant’s son amid the social tensions of late 19th-century Russia.
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D.
Ivan Chernyakhovsky
Ivan Chernyakhovsky was a prominent Soviet general of World War II, noted as one of the youngest front commanders and a key figure in major Eastern Front offensives against Nazi Germany.
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E.
Vasily Vasiliev
Vasily Vasiliev is a descendant of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s family line, being the son of Stalin’s son Vasily Stalin.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mikhail Dostoevsky (brother) Target entity description: Mikhail Dostoevsky was a Russian writer, journalist, and publisher, best known as the elder brother and early supporter of novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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A.
Ilya Tolstoy
Ilya Tolstoy was a member of the prominent Russian Tolstoy family, known primarily as a descendant of the famed writer Leo Tolstoy.
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B.
Konstantin Vershinin
Konstantin Vershinin was a prominent Soviet military leader who served as a senior commander of the Soviet Air Forces during and after World War II.
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C.
Foma Gordeyev
Foma Gordeyev is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the moral and spiritual decline of a wealthy merchant’s son amid the social tensions of late 19th-century Russia.
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D.
Ivan Chernyakhovsky
Ivan Chernyakhovsky was a prominent Soviet general of World War II, noted as one of the youngest front commanders and a key figure in major Eastern Front offensives against Nazi Germany.
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E.
Vasily Vasiliev
Vasily Vasiliev is a descendant of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s family line, being the son of Stalin’s son Vasily Stalin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian writer
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ publisher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Russian ⓘ |
| familyName |
Mikhail Dostoevsky
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surface form:
Dostoevsky
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| genre |
journalism
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literary prose ⓘ |
| givenName | Mikhail ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | Fyodor Dostoevsky ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the elder brother of Fyodor Dostoevsky
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supporting the early literary career of Fyodor Dostoevsky ⓘ |
| notableRole |
editor
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publisher of literary works ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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publisher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| relative | Fyodor Dostoevsky ⓘ |
| residence |
St. Petersburg
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surface form:
Saint Petersburg
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Fyodor Dostoevsky ⓘ |
| workLocation |
St. Petersburg
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surface form:
Saint Petersburg
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How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Mikhail Dostoevsky (brother) Description of subject: Mikhail Dostoevsky was a Russian writer, journalist, and publisher, best known as the elder brother and early supporter of novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.